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YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.

Link: www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number.

With all the news about citizens discovering their voter status has been lapsed, and new rules for being a voter, everyone should check.

But also, sometimes you forget. I have new neighbors who finished moving a month ago, and when I asked if they changed their mailing address and checked their voting status, we discovered they weren’t.

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

I commend vote.org for doing everything they can to get people registered, especially in areas where one side does everything possible to make the voting process as difficult as functionally possible…

…but be warned you will be drowning in emails from vote.org.

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

This is the kind of election post that’s necessary.

I hate seeing “Remeber to go vote!” posts the week before an election as if that’s all you need to do. In most places, you need some kind of enrollment activity before they let you vote on the day, bring ID, etc etc.

some_guy ,

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/3528fbc6-e761-453b-8bdc-e7cdc7b2f2aa.png

Haha, get fucked. I already get flooded with emails and text messages because I made some donations in 2020. I’ll never participate by giving up contact info again. Good job poisoning the well, Dems (I donated to Bernie and other progressives, now I’m hounded by first Biden and then Harris campaigns).

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Do they not let you unsubscribe?

some_guy ,

I’ve treated them like spammers. I figure it’s best not to acknowledge that the account is actively read. But lately I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to unsubscribe from all of them en masse.

meliaesc ,

Its… just one click to stop the emails and texts…

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/465d4930-c240-4dcf-ae90-9abd2e8e45b7.jpeg

rbesfe ,

Why are you complaining about something you’ve never tried to stop? Either do something about it or STFU

some_guy ,

I conflate a thing that sucks when you try to stop it with a thing that’s happening now. You can stfu too.

MisterFrog ,
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world avatar

Apparently vote.gov is a thing.

I_Clean_Here ,

This system is so fucking dumb. Get with the times, America

Passerby6497 ,

You assume that those in power want the problem to be fixed. The republicans actively fight making voting a holiday (going as far as saying that dems pushing for it are trying to manipulate elections) and have criminalized giving people stuck in lines for hours (again, as intended) food or water. And since our system was designed by and for wealthly land/slave holders, its not designed to work for the will of the people.

urandom ,

In the US, why do you need to register in order to vote? Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?

I’m sure they do, but I think your confusion is coming from the assumption that those who are in charge of such things actually want people to vote.

EffortlessEffluvium ,

It’s only an issue because the voting laws aren’t federalized. Each state has its own criteria and register.

Tilgare ,

They also know precisely how much we owe in taxes, but instead of telling us and we pay it, they allowed a multi billion dollar industry to pop up around it and dictate tax law.

daniskarma ,

That’s not entirely true.

Not an US citizen. And in my country tax returns are certainly easier than the US. And our country also have a system in which people below certain money can just go to the tax agency and a government employee will do your tax return for you. But it cannot be fully automated, as the government doesn’t actually know 100% what do you own.

When they send you letters after asking for things is for you to give them paper documentation on why you deducted some things, or because they are inspecting some things a your deduction raised a flag. But it’s not like they just know precisely how much everyone should pay. If it were that easy tax returns would not be a thing as it is in most of the world.

Tilgare ,

They know my tax liability based on the income reported to the IRS by my employer - but you’re right that something they don’t necessarily know is the variety of valid deductions you might be eligible to take. Part of the process of filing is also calculating your tax liability though - and that part of it they know precisely and rather than TELLING you, you’re expected to determine your own liability and heaven help you if it’s wrong.

daniskarma ,

Well, that’s bad then.

Where I live its true that that part of the tax refund is already filled by our IRS equivalent. We have to fill the income that they don’t know about, and our deductions, which can be quite complex.

eldavi , (edited )

the american authorities don’t want everyone to vote so they require registrations for each election cycle and make doing so, as well as retaining that status until election day, as legally difficult as possible for the ones that they don’t want voting. they also take extra steps to make the act of voting itself as legally difficult as possible for those that they don’t want to voting as well.

the people who they don’t want voting are majority of registered voters so to further minimize their voting power; our authorities gerrymander political districts so that the people who they DO want voting have an artificially oversized voting impact compared to those who they DON’T want voting. nearly all of the conservative states use this approach with texas being one of the worse examples per the 2020 census.

prole ,

There is no real “centralized authority” for elections in the US

whotookkarl ,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re in Michigan the secretary of state website has a registration check and sample ballots but other sites have sample ballots too. That allows time to look into candidates, review voting history, maybe watch an interview or two, before going to vote.

nieminen ,

*Warning: you will get texted so use your disposable number

When I filled it out, email was required, phone was not.

Also, I use proton.me, and they have a really nice email masker, so you can generate throwaway email addresses, which is nice!

DerArzt ,

Wait what? Been using them for years and I didn’t know about this. TIL

nieminen , (edited )

It’s in the proton pass app. You only get so many in the free tier, but I did the premium, so it’s unlimited.

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